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author | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2014-06-21 11:17:29 +0300 |
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committer | Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> | 2014-06-21 11:17:29 +0300 |
commit | 97a1ef484e61190deece48ee73b9b9d3b6be221c (patch) | |
tree | d873f3153d0974a44c7d929780506ec27be68fbb /doc | |
parent | 637bce026b02dc188eea42188e1d8ea8f4d3de3f (diff) |
Improve documentation of how vertical-motion interprets columns.
src/indent.c (Fvertical_motion): Doc fix.
doc/lispref/positions.texi (Screen Lines): Clarify how columns are counted
by vertical-motion.
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-rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/ChangeLog | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | doc/lispref/positions.texi | 6 |
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog index c20a20409a..4610c33796 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/lispref/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2014-06-21 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> + + * positions.texi (Screen Lines): Clarify how columns are counted + by vertical-motion. + 2014-06-14 Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> * commands.texi (Accessing Mouse): Improve the wording of the diff --git a/doc/lispref/positions.texi b/doc/lispref/positions.texi index f83173e203..fee36fa833 100644 --- a/doc/lispref/positions.texi +++ b/doc/lispref/positions.texi @@ -500,7 +500,11 @@ is negative, it moves up instead. The @var{count} argument can be a cons cell, @code{(@var{cols} . @var{lines})}, instead of an integer. Then the function moves by @var{lines} screen lines, and puts point @var{cols} columns from the -start of that screen line. +visual start of that screen line. Note that @var{cols} are counted +from the @emph{visual} start of the line; if the window is scrolled +horizontally (@pxref{Horizontal Scrolling}), the column on which point +will end is in addition to the number of columns by which the text is +scrolled. The return value is the number of screen lines over which point was moved. The value may be less in absolute value than @var{count} if |